"What is the matter, Laddie?" demanded Russ.
"If it is another riddle, Laddie, take your time. We'll stop and listen
to it."
"It isn't a riddle--Yes, it is, too! I guess it's a sort of riddle,
anyway," said Laddie. "Have you seen him?"
"That sounds like a riddle," said Rose. "And of course we haven't seen
him. What is the answer?"
"Who is it that you are asking your riddle about?" demanded Russ.
"Mun Bun," declared Laddie, breathing very hard, for he had run all the
way from the stateroom.
"Mun Bun isn't a riddle," said his sister. "He can't be."
"Well, he's lost," declared Laddie. "We can't find him. He was there one
minute, and just the next he was gone. And Mother can't find him, and
Vi's gone to hunt for Daddy, and--and--anyhow, Mun Bun has lost himself
and we don't any of us know what has become of him."
CHAPTER VI
THE SEA-EAGLE
Mun Bun was not a very disobedient little boy; but as Daddy Bunker said,
he had a better "forgetery" than he had memory. Mun Bun quite forgot
that Mother Bunker had told him not to leave the bigger stateroom where
she was setting things to rights in her usual careful way. For, as they
were to be several days on the steamship, she must have a place for
things and everything in its place, or she could not comfortably take
care of Daddy and six children.
Then, Mun Bun was so quick! Just as Laddie said: one minute he was
there, and the next minute he wasn't.
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